Coupons, coupons, coupons!  We all love them.  We get them in our Sunday newspapers and just the other day I had about 4 bags of them sitting on my stoop when I got home.  We all love saving money, especially when we are shopping but I have found most people are not very diligent to put in the time to find coupons.   On a recent report on Good Morning America, about 2 months ago I can’t seem to find the link anymore, a lady was able to feed her family of 4 with less than $10 per week.  She was obviously coupon obsessed.  I tried to do this and I found is that it takes a lot of work to make that happen.  It almost becomes a part time job.

Red Plum is one of the many options you have online for searching for coupons.  In my own personal experience of doing this I have found that most of these sites have the exact same coupons available, after all they come from the manufacturer or the store itself.  The real value in this site and others like this is having them consolidated in one place so you don’t have to go looking for them all over the internet.

So what exactly will you find at Red Plum, coupons and lots of them.  Coupons for specific items, coupons for specific stores, coupons to the left of you, coupons to the right of you!  As with most coupon sites you do have to create an account.  Joining is free but membership does have some privileges.  If you do decide to join get ready because you have the option of what types of coupons you want to receive in your email account and they will faithfully send emails.  Personally I am tired of creating accounts because I have enough emails in my inbox that I never read anyway.  However once you have joined you then have access to free giveaways, samples and other great deals.  These are some of the privileges.

When searching the site you can view coupons available but to print them you have to install the coupon printer on your computer.  Again this is how most of these sites work so if you want the coupons you have to follow the orders.  I don’t want you to think I have a negative view of this site because I don’t I just don’t feel I need any more memberships, whether they are free or not, because I can’t even keep up with the ones I have.  Personally you don’t need to join every one of these sites just find one or two you like and just join those.  As I said earlier they will generally have the same coupon information. 

When it comes to coupons the real value is how to use them to get the most bang for your buck.  Coupons give you the most discount when they can be combined with other coupons to get double or triple the savings. I found some good tips on getting the most from you coupons at the sites below:

Get the most out of coupons
Getting the most out of your coupons

If you are up to the challenge there are some savings out there.  Get ready to put in some work but at the same time there is some reward at the other end.